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CORRECTIONS TO A. LUNACHARSKY'S ARTICLE "THE BANKRUPTCY 
OF THE POLICE REGIME".
No. 10 *VPERED*, 15 (2) MARCH 1905

...They play at political chess*, trying to outwit one another. But the worker will strike the chess board with his fist* so that all diplomacy flies to the devil...

...Profoundly thoughtful political windbags warn social[ist] democracy against excessively active organization of the revolution: this might lead to such a terrible thing as a premature democratic dictatorship of the proletariat and peasantry...

...Remember, the proletariat will no longer permit itself to be deceived! It will drive you forward, all the way to the democratic republic, without stopping, ever growing, ever organizing, until this radiant bogatyr builds [a temple of universal human happiness] a new socialist edifice on the ruins of your liberal-bourgeois order!...

...We shall reject as utopia, as unconscious provocation, any attempt to impose upon the proletariat a task impossible under present socio-economic conditions—the immediate implementation of the maximum program, that is, the immediate creation of a socialist order; we shall ceaselessly explain to the worker that only the independent class organization of urban and rural proletarians is a reliable guarantee of the emancipation of labor from the oppression of capital...

¹ The article uses "certain especially characteristic statements" of the director of the Police Department—Lopukhin. The latter's report was issued separately as a pamphlet in Geneva. The pamphlet was supplied with a preface by Lenin (see *Works*, Vol. VIII, 103).

* Lunacharsky crossed out the lines printed here in bold type; but Lenin restored them again. *Ed.*

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